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Operationalism Under Propertarianism Renders Postmodernist, Critique, and Kantian Arguments Impossible
Deceptions LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of arguments Applications THE COSMOPOLITAN TECHNIQUE: CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with overloading, framing, loading and laundering. An elaborate means of distraction from a hidden agenda. THE GERMAN TECHNIQUE – KANTIAN: an attempt to justify moral authority independent of experience. THE ANGLO TECHNIQUE – POSTMODERNISM: an attempt to conflate fact and value, such that value distorts fact.
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Operationalism Under Propertarianism Renders Postmodernist, Critique, and Kantian Arguments Impossible
Deceptions LAUNDERING: Laundering actions and individuals via aggregation into symbols, objects and entities LOADING: Loading with emotional or moral sentiments FRAMING: Framing by selection of causes and properties OVERLOADING: Overloading by production of a multitude of arguments Applications THE COSMOPOLITAN TECHNIQUE: CRITIQUE: Using all of the above to defend a straw man by attacking with overloading, framing, loading and laundering. An elaborate means of distraction from a hidden agenda. THE GERMAN TECHNIQUE – KANTIAN: an attempt to justify moral authority independent of experience. THE ANGLO TECHNIQUE – POSTMODERNISM: an attempt to conflate fact and value, such that value distorts fact.
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Result of Interaction
RESULTS: THE FORMS OF INTERACTION – FROM WAR TO PRODUCTION TO SUICIDE 1) WAR: Both parties prey upon each other in mutual destruction (consumption) 2) PREDATION: In which on party preys upon the other for the purpose of destruction (consumption) 3) PARASITISM: In which one party benefits at another’s expense 4) COMMENSALISM: In which one party benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped 5) EXCHANGE: In which costs are reciprocally offset without gain. 6) MUTUALISM (production) : in which both parties benefit. 7) COLONIALISM : In which one party pays the cost of training the other to cooperate. 8) SACRIFICE: In which one party harms itself in order to benefit the other. 9) SUICIDE: In which one party destroys itself in order to benefit the other.
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Result of Interaction
RESULTS: THE FORMS OF INTERACTION – FROM WAR TO PRODUCTION TO SUICIDE 1) WAR: Both parties prey upon each other in mutual destruction (consumption) 2) PREDATION: In which on party preys upon the other for the purpose of destruction (consumption) 3) PARASITISM: In which one party benefits at another’s expense 4) COMMENSALISM: In which one party benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped 5) EXCHANGE: In which costs are reciprocally offset without gain. 6) MUTUALISM (production) : in which both parties benefit. 7) COLONIALISM : In which one party pays the cost of training the other to cooperate. 8) SACRIFICE: In which one party harms itself in order to benefit the other. 9) SUICIDE: In which one party destroys itself in order to benefit the other.
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The Current Propertarian Canon (Reading List)
(in suggested reading order)
Note that I do not list the usual works of ‘lament’ about the fall of the west. I assume that we all understand that. But understanding it isn’t a means of countering it. Countering it requires we understand the origins of liberty, the constitution of liberty, and act to restore our liberty. As such I focus on how to construct and reconstruct informal and formal institutions that will do a better job of protecting our liberty than did classical liberalism. However, doing so requires that I dismantle the fallacy of rothbardian ghetto ethics, and german rationalism, and instead, rebuild the case for liberty on science and history.
THE RESTORATION READING LIST Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans John Keegan: A History Of Warfare Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms Matt Ridley: The Red Queen Dale Petersen: Demonic Males Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy
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The Current Propertarian Canon (Reading List)
(in suggested reading order)
Note that I do not list the usual works of ‘lament’ about the fall of the west. I assume that we all understand that. But understanding it isn’t a means of countering it. Countering it requires we understand the origins of liberty, the constitution of liberty, and act to restore our liberty. As such I focus on how to construct and reconstruct informal and formal institutions that will do a better job of protecting our liberty than did classical liberalism. However, doing so requires that I dismantle the fallacy of rothbardian ghetto ethics, and german rationalism, and instead, rebuild the case for liberty on science and history.
THE RESTORATION READING LIST Ricardo Duchesne: The Uniqueness of Western Civilization JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans John Keegan: A History Of Warfare Joseph Campbell : The Hero’s Journey Karen Armstrong : The Great Transformation William Tucker: Marriage and Civilization Emmanuel Todd: The Explanation of Ideology Emmanuel Todd: The Invention of Europe Daniel Hannan: Inventing Freedom Alan MacFarlane : Origins of English Individualism Gregory Clark: A Farewell to Alms Matt Ridley: The Red Queen Dale Petersen: Demonic Males Steven Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature Daniel Kahneman: Thinking, Fast and Slow Francis Fukuyama: Trust Sam Harris : Lying Steven Pinker : The Blank Slate Jonathan Haidt: The Righteous Mind Stephen Hicks : Explaining Postmodernism Hans Hoppe: Democracy The God That Failed Doolittle: Propertarianism. High Trust Ethics Necessary for Anarchy
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DRAFT: RULES OF ETHICAL ARGUMENT 1) The set of positive or negative statements a
DRAFT: RULES OF ETHICAL ARGUMENT
1) The set of positive or negative statements alone is not a sufficient description of any moral rule.
If you cannot state both the positive and negative assertions you do not yet understand that which you claim.
Examples:
The right of association (positive) and the right of exclusion (negative).
The right to property (positive), the prohibition on free riding(negative).
Do unto others as you would have others do unto you (positive), do not unto others that you do not want done to you (negative).
2) If you cannot state your argument in operational language then you do not understand it sufficiently to make a truth claim.
Nothing “is”. The verb to-be is used to obscure one’s causal ignorance – man acts. Nothing “is” independent of action describing its conception.
3) Cooperation vs Free Riding.
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4) Morals: Moral rules prohibit free riding. Rules enumerating criminal, ethical, moral, conspiratorial and conquest prohibitions constitute the sets of prohibitions on free riding from the most individual and direct to the most collective and indirect.
5) Fully informed voluntary consent to transfer, is the only test of moral action. Any action causing transfer (imposing cost) without fully informed voluntary consent is immoral – a violation of the prohibition on free riding that is the necessary precondition for rational mutually beneficial cooperation.
6) Exchanges (production): fully informed, mutually productive, warrantied, voluntary exchange exclusive of negative externality is the only test of moral exchange.
These are six of the laws of ethical argument.
(Undone: add property / commons )
Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 04:33:00 UTC
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The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism
(worth repeating) 1) Thick / Humanist / Psychological / Left libertarianism is a luxury good, and it is neither scientifically or rationally formulated, remaining true to the psychological tradition of classical liberalism. We CAN form a polity under Thick libertarianism, as long as luxuries are voluntarily constructed, requiring voluntary participation, rather than mandated. 2) Aristocratic Egalitarian / Scientific libertarianism is necessary and sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state. It is both rationally and scientifically formulated. We CAN form a polity under aristocratic egalitarianism. 3) Thin / Ghetto / libertine / Brutalist libertarianism is necessary but INSUFFICIENT for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state. It is rationally but not scientifically formulated. And furthermore, would be the target of conquest and oppression by all nearby polities. We CANNOT form a polity under rothbardian, ghetto, libertinism.
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The Possibility of Thick, Aristocratic, and Thin Libertarianism
(worth repeating) 1) Thick / Humanist / Psychological / Left libertarianism is a luxury good, and it is neither scientifically or rationally formulated, remaining true to the psychological tradition of classical liberalism. We CAN form a polity under Thick libertarianism, as long as luxuries are voluntarily constructed, requiring voluntary participation, rather than mandated. 2) Aristocratic Egalitarian / Scientific libertarianism is necessary and sufficient for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state. It is both rationally and scientifically formulated. We CAN form a polity under aristocratic egalitarianism. 3) Thin / Ghetto / libertine / Brutalist libertarianism is necessary but INSUFFICIENT for the formation of a voluntary polity in the absence of the state. It is rationally but not scientifically formulated. And furthermore, would be the target of conquest and oppression by all nearby polities. We CANNOT form a polity under rothbardian, ghetto, libertinism.